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Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools

They are clearly trying to whip up a moral panic about disability accommodations but this article doesn't include any data on accommodations.

University of Texas regents OK limits on controversial subjects Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.

The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a rule requiring its universities to ensure students can graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects,” despite warnings it could leave them less prepared for the real world.

Colbert and Kimmel have met the moment under our slide into fascism in a way that institutions, press, and the Democratic Party haven’t

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Disabled people & those who cannot afford to get Covid deserve to be able to see art in public and make art in public.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

3 panel sketch comic featuring the Mandalorian and Grogu. Din Djarin sits at a table with Grogu, holding a tablet as Grogu draws on it. Final panel reveals Grogu's drawing is a big squiggle next to a little squiggle.

In honor of finally getting a 'Mandalorian and Grogu' trailer, here's one of my favorite Grogu comics from a few year back

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

"Revokes scientific finding"

E.T. (first movie in a theater)
An American Tail
Land After Time
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Interview with a Vampire (first R-rated movie)
The Blair Witch Project
Rumble in the Bronx
Run Lola Run
Princess Mononoke
10 Things I Hate About You
The Craft
Blade
To Wong Foo
28 Days
Moulin Rouge

Congressional Republicans are going to deprive D.C. of $700 million in revenue and repeal a local program projected to reduce child poverty by 20 percent, solely to spite District residents and make us suffer. They’re also throwing our tax filing into utter chaos. This is a disaster.

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Immigrants at ICE’s Adelanto detention center denounce lack of medical care and “inhumane” conditions A federal lawsuit by immigrants detained at the ICE facility alleges they’re treated like “dogs in cages” and denied food and water.

In ICE detention camps, “disease and illness are rampant, mold grows on the walls, and detained individuals are denied sufficient food, clean drinking water, proper medical care, and disability accommodations”.

ICE is a scourge of humanity, and also of public health.

York County, SC, GOP resolution calling for the removal of "online access for minor children to pornographic or obscene materials; removes exemptions from such restriction for public libraries; mandates no materials can be pornographic or obscene in SC libraries; removes all involvement of the ALA with the state licensing and professional practice of librarians and library directors."

York County, South Carolina's GOP party decided one of their initiatives this year is banning the American Library Association from its county.

This is a bizarre priority for a county-level GOP party, isn't it?

Perhaps not so when you know anything about York County's Library.

They're Coming for Our Daughters The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

for any of you younglings just learning of the massive benefits provided by owning your own media copies: always check used DVDs/CDs for Disc Rot

many Warner Bros-distributed DVDs from 2005-2009 are affected by disc rot, due to a factory issue with the glue used to label the discs:

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM.

Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

nintendo is going to drone strike the data center responsible for this

It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

HHS wasn't worried about South Carolina's measles outbreak. It's now enormous. “CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December.

I wrote about how in a December email to me, RFK Jr.'s HHS insisted the current South Carolina measles outbreak wouldn't get that bad—and how it has since snowballed into the biggest US outbreak since measles was eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Protester sprayed with chemical irritant while agents pinned him to the ground Protesters gathered on Blaisdell Avenue in south Minneapolis between 28th and 29th streets after federal agents detained two teenagers, according to witnesses. Protesters were shouting and tensions escalated before agents began detaining observers like the man seen below, who was pinned to the ground when a federal agent sprayed a chemical irritant directly into his face.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

Protesters clashed after federal agents arrested a suspect near 28th and Blaisedell Avenue South in Minneapolis on Wednesday.Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Hey, hey, @startribune.com, what the FUCK is with calling people detained by ICE "suspects." The person they took, according to your own story, is SIXTEEN. Suspected of WHAT? existing while brown?

FUCK YOU.

scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "Social media video depicts agents taking a 15yo & 16yo on the 2800 block of Blaisdell. Community member reports either tear gas or pepper spray deployed"

So many people don't realize/understand that if you have a chronic illness or are considered disabled, you're basically trapped here.